A question that I ask myself, and ask churches both in the U.S. and here in Mexico, is: When was the last time a family, or a part of a family, has been saved in this church, and discipled, and has begun to show spiritual fruit? Some follow-up questions are: What sort of excitement did […]
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A couple of days ago I wrote about our trip up to the U.S. for a missions conference at Rio Grande Bible Institute. If you missed that, you can click HERE. This is a brief account of our way back. When I posted a quick picture of this, a friend and former missionary to Puebla,
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Over the past week a bunch of us have been working on details for this coming Sunday’s 5th Anniversary celebration for the Iglesia Bíblica Sendero de Vida Jesús María. Hard to believe it’s been five years since 20 of us left the first church here to start services in a new neighborhood. Normally Samuel does
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I preached a sermon several months back entitled “The Holiness of God and the Reality of the Christian Life.” In it I tried to present a biblical balance between God’s holy standard and the reality of our experience. To varying degrees, sometimes public, sometimes intensely private, we all fail. We all sin. All of us
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David and I spent last week with Dave Miller and Gaspar Chable at Gaspar’s ranch outside of Oaxaca, a state to the southeast of Mexico City, about a 5 1/2 hour drive for us. Dave is president and founder of Adventures in Life Ministry. We’ll be doing a 6-week short-term missions experience together this summer
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Of course, we never really went away, but we’ve had a bunch of problems with website servers and, most recently, our desktop computer needing fixed that we haven’t updated MexicoMatters.org very frequently. The computer is functional…although doesn’t look very pretty. Here’s an update: 1. Our Commission to Every Nation (CTEN) teammate Kaycee Kaba arrived yesterday,
Yesterday we kicked off yet another semester of community center activities. I had a 6 p.m. English class, with 6 students in our first class in Palmas 1, a neighborhood where we’ve had some activities already, beginning last summer, and continuing with the Grymaloskis giving English classes from September through December. We are meeting After
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“When it rains, it pours.” December 2014 was full of good, bad and downright ugly. I won’t go into all the details…but December was a challenging month! Some events that will go into the “hassles but surmountable” include our main desktop computer dying for a few days, our debit card (our source of income) getting
This week and early next week we wrap up a semester of community center classes, this time in three separate neighborhoods. I will be MCing tomorrow night (Thursday) for the group in Jesús María, and sharing a devotional for the Acozac group next Monday. Tonight (Wednesday) the new group in Palmas 1 had their closing
My good friend Samuel teaches physics in a High School in the morning, and in a Jr. Hi School in the afternoon. At least once a week we get together for a pretty intense game of racquetball (well, as intense as we can be at our age!). But his real passion is art, and he
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